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History and sexual politics, 1492 to the presentTue, 31 Mar 2015 17:55:15 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2By: Historiannhttp://www.historiann.com/2009/09/25/saddled-up-ridin-out-today-yee-haw/comment-page-1/#comment-446772
Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:30:03 +0000http://www.historiann.com/?p=7596#comment-446772The FREAC was a great time, friends–new faces, old friends, and a level of intellectual engagement that puts most conference sessions to shame. (I think this is probably because of the fact that it’s a regular date on most of our calendars–we know each other, and care about each other, so we’re probably more consciencious about being good colleagues.)

A session I self-indulgently organized on biography in early American history was a lot of fun–Eric Hinderaker talked about his new book, The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery (Harvard, forthcoming); Jenny Pulsipher talked about her work on John Wompus, a 17th C Nipmuc man who left a relatively big footprint in the archives; and John Smolenski talked about his interest in Nassau, Landon Carter’s ‘body man.’ Some of our older colleagues talked about how interesting it is to see biographies of previously unknown people–they said, “in the past, no one would ever have thought to write a biography of an unknown person.” All very smart stuff, and fun to talk about!

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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:22:41 +0000http://www.historiann.com/?p=7596#comment-446770[...] Speaking of finding stuff in attics and digging up hoards of Anglo-Saxon treasure, Volunteer Park Ranger Doug Leen (day job, dentist) has worked for decades to track down vintage posters of U.S. National Parks and have them reproduced. Here’s how he got started: During the fall of 1972 or 1973 in the Tetons, which was my second or third season there. Every year we’d have a cleanup day and every ranger would work on cleaning up after the summer season. My boss called and we commenced to clear out the old horse stalls at Beaver Creek, which were full of stuff laced with cobwebs. [...]
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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:20:46 +0000http://www.historiann.com/?p=7596#comment-446264I’m hoping Historiann brings me back a horse from the FREACs. Somethin’ in an Old Paint layout. If ze was related to Seminar, I could call hir “Colloquium!”
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Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:07:53 +0000http://www.historiann.com/?p=7596#comment-446058The hoard in the UK is very VERY cool. I’m looking forward to the reports, but spent more-time-than-I-should-have yesterday ogling the images. They were very quick to get photos up; most haven’t been properly cleaned yet!

What do I dream of finding in an attic? I think I’d have to go with a cache of vintage Balenciaga dresses — my size, of course!

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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:49:13 +0000http://www.historiann.com/?p=7596#comment-445300Tom–tell me more! I figured that you of all people would be excited about this. (Well, and Another Damned Medievalist, too.)
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